Bible Against Slaveholders: Slaves Bought and Sold!Republic Office, 1849 - 8 pages |
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Page 42
... kind- ness towards their servants , are held out to their fears in threatened judgments ; to their hopes in promised good ; and to all within them that could feel , by those oft repeated words of tenderness and terror ! " For ye were ...
... kind- ness towards their servants , are held out to their fears in threatened judgments ; to their hopes in promised good ; and to all within them that could feel , by those oft repeated words of tenderness and terror ! " For ye were ...
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... kind of instrument , no design to kill would be inferred ; for intent to kill would hardly have taken a rod for its weapon . But if the servant die under his hand , then the unfit- ness of the instrument , is point blank against him ...
... kind of instrument , no design to kill would be inferred ; for intent to kill would hardly have taken a rod for its weapon . But if the servant die under his hand , then the unfit- ness of the instrument , is point blank against him ...
Page 51
... kind of instrument used , and the fact of his living some time after the injury , ( if the master meant to kill , he would be likely to do it while about it , ) all together make a strong case of presumptive evidence clearing the master ...
... kind of instrument used , and the fact of his living some time after the injury , ( if the master meant to kill , he would be likely to do it while about it , ) all together make a strong case of presumptive evidence clearing the master ...
Page 52
... kind of punishment , rejected by the law , in all cases where man took the life of man , whether with or without intent to kill . In short , the objector annuls an inte- gral part of the system - makes a new law , and cooly metes out ...
... kind of punishment , rejected by the law , in all cases where man took the life of man , whether with or without intent to kill . In short , the objector annuls an inte- gral part of the system - makes a new law , and cooly metes out ...
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... kind of labor in which he had no skill , and which he deemed de- grading . In short , it was in the earlier ages of the Mosaic system , practically to unjew him , a hardship and rigor grievous to be borne , as it annihilated a visible ...
... kind of labor in which he had no skill , and which he deemed de- grading . In short , it was in the earlier ages of the Mosaic system , practically to unjew him , a hardship and rigor grievous to be borne , as it annihilated a visible ...
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Abraham Amelek Amelekites annihilate articles of property authorized becoming servants Bible bought servants Canaan Canaanites cattle chattel children of Israel Chron cities command condition crime destroy Deut distinction douloi Egypt Egyptians extermination father forever Gibeonites gives precepts God's hath heathen Hebrew heir hired servants honor inference inhabitants inheritance Israel in battle Israelites Israelitish servant Jephunneh Jewish Josh jubilee kill Kings labor land land of Goshen Lord Maimonides master meaning Mephibosheth modern slavery Mosaic law Mosaic system Moses nations neighbor Old Testament Onesimus oppression patriarchal permanent servants persons possession proclaim liberty procure punished put to death raoh relation rendered robbed Roman slavery Saul sell slaveholders slaves sold stealeth stealing surely be put Targum Testament thing Thou shalt tion unto thee vants verse wages Whisky Rebellion wives xxii xxiv Zuph
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Page 19 - And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Page 27 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen for ever : but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Page 20 - And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
Page 10 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Page 1 - Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
Page 22 - Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death.
Page 19 - And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.